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ihvirnn TATES YVILLIAMSOOTT MORTON, OF EDINBURGH, COUNTY OF MID-LOTHIAN,SCOTLAND.

MACHINE FOR EMBOSSING AND BACKING WALL-DECORATING MATERIALS.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,257, dated February26, 1884.

Application filed June 18, 1883. (No model.) Patented in England May23.1882, No. 2,420. and in'France November 23,1882,

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Be it known that I, WILLIAM Scorcr MoR- TON, a subject of the Queen ofGreat Britain and Ireland, residing at Edinburgh, in the county ofMid-Lothian, Scotland, have invented an Improved Embossing and BackingMachine for Wall Decorating Materials, (for which I have obtained thefollowing patents: Great Britain, dated May 23, 1882, N 0. 2,420;France,dated November 23, 1882, No. 152,258,) of which the following isa specification.

My invention has for its objectthe manufacture, in improved modes and bymeans of improved apparatus, of a material for covering and decoratingwall and other surfaces. This material has for its principal constituenta woven fabric or canvas, but leather or paper or other sheet materialmay be employed instead of the canvas. The canvas is first saturatedwith size applied in a heated condition, and when the size has set, butwhile it is still in a moist or soft state, the sized canvas is woundloosely on a roller, on which it is placed in the machine. From theroller the canvas is passed round a modeling cylinderjor roller, bymeans of which, aided by a numberof stampers, ornamental devices areembossed upon it. A backing of paper or other suitable material is nextapplied, and the modeled canvas is finally delivered from the machine:The ornamental devices are formed in intaglio on the surface of thecylinder, and provision is made in the machine for receiving cylindersof different sizes to suit patterns having different lengths of repeat.I

Figure 1 on the accompanying sheet of drawings is an end elevation ofthe machine, and Fig.2 is a longitudinal vertical section. In thesefigures the same reference-numerals are used to mark the same or likeparts wherever they are repeated.

The framing consists of two parallel vertical side frames, 3, which areconnected by transverse frame-pieces 4 at the lower part, and by twoinclined frames, 5, at the upper part, and these inclined frames 5 carrya number of stampers, 6, which are formed with heavy bottom ends facedwith toothed rubber or with other suitable material and fixed on rods 7,

The Stampers 6 are pressed down-' tions converging to the center of theelnbossingcylinder 11. This embossing-cylinder, which may have a surfaceof metal or other suitable material, has the intended ornamental devicesformed 011 it in intaglio, in order to produce the devices in relievo onthe canvas, the face of the canvas intended to be the front being thatwhich is in contact with the embossingcylinder 11 when passing throughthe machine. The embossingcylinder 11 is carried in bearings 12, whichare adjustable vertically in guides in the side frames, 3, to allow ofcylinders of different sizes being properly placed in the machine. Oneof the cam-shafts 10 is used as the first-motion shaft of the machine,and has on it fast and loose pulleys 13, for a drivingbelt, and theembossing-cylinder 11 is driven from one of the cam-shafts 10 by meansof a worm, 14, thereon, gearing with a worm-wheel on a short verticalshaft, 15,whicl1 is geared by a bevel pinion and wheel, 16, to the shaftof the cylinder 11.

The canvas, having been prepared as hereinbefore described, and placedon a roller, 17, at the entering side of the machine, passes thenceround the embossing-cylinder 11. The canvas or material is first forcedinto the intaglio cavities of the embossing-cylinder 11 by the stampers6, and then passes on to receive a backing of paper-,which is applied tothe surface which is then outward. The backing-paper is drawn off a drumor roller, 18, and is first passed through a trough, 19, containingwater, which may be heated by steam to soften the paper, which isdepressedinto the water by passing under a loose roller, 20. The paperis next led into the machine by an endless blanket, 21, which carries itbetween a pair of rollers, 22 23, the upper one, 22, supplying paste tothe surface of the paper which goes into contact with the embossedcanvas. The blanket 21 is distended by the lower, 23, of the two rollerslast mentioned, and by another roller, 21-,which last is pressed towardthe emhossingcylinder 11, and the blanket carries the pasted paperbetween the roller 24 and the embossed canvas, and causes it to adhereto the latter. A box or chest, 25, to which steam is admitted, is placedwithin the endless blanket 21, for the purpose of heating the pastedpaper an d removing superfluous moisture. The roller 2%, which pressestheblanket with the pasted paper toward the embossingcylinder is coveredwith rubber or other suitable material, which may be formed with atoothed surface to press the paper well into the embossed parts of thecanvas. After the .modeled canvas has thus received its backingpaper, itpasses between another roller, 26, and the cylinder 11,this roller 26carrying one end loop of an endless cloth or apron, 27 ,upon which themodeled canvas is delivered from the machine, and this roller 26 mayalso be covered with rubber and serve to press the paper 'still moreclosely to the modeled canvas. A rotating brush, 28, driven by means ofpulleys and a belt, 29, from one of the camshafts 10, is placed so as toact on the embossingcylinder 11, between the position at which thecanvas enters upon it and that at which it leaves it, for the purpose ofcleansing the cylinder from paste, size, or fluff left upon it by thecanvas. After leaving the machinethe modeled canvas is hung up to dry,and is finally completed by painting, which may be done either before orafter the mate rial is fixed on the wall or other surface which it isintended to decorate.

\Vhen the modeled canvas or similar mate rial is to be applied to wallsor surfaces which are liable to be damp, a backing of tinfoil is put onit, either instead of or in addition to the paper backing.

It is an important advantage of my machine and modeling process that theembossing of woven fabrics or leather or paper or other material iseifected without puckering or creasing, but so as to retain for artisticeffect the texture of the material embossed.

I claim, in the machine for embossing and backing wall-decoratingmaterials 1. An embossing-cylinder,11, combined'with stampers 6, whichare lifted by rotating cams 9, and are made by springs S to press thematerial into the intaglio parts of the cylinder, substantially as setforth.

2. In combination with the embossing-Cy inder l1 and the stampers 6 andtheir actuating mechanism, apparatus, substantially as described, formoistening, pasting,warming, and applying backing-paper, substantiallyas set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM SCOTT MORTON.

Witnesses:

ROBERT K. MITCHELL, ALEXR. BLACK.

